Michelle Liu

New Orleans, South Carolina

All Things Considered Producer at New Hampshire Public Radio

editing, sometimes reporting @veritenewsnola

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Actor Harold X. Evans brought Black theater to life in N.O.

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Anyone who saw an August Wilson play at the Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School, or ABCT, in New Orleans had the pleasure of witnessing a performance by Harold X. Evans. Whether it was “Joe Turner’s Come & Gone” or “Two Trains Running,” Evans demonstrated why he was called the “Dean of Black Theater.”The actor and stage director died Monday (June 16). He was 79.
NH students speak on the effects of school budget cuts

1 week ago | nhpr.org | Michelle Liu |Julia Furukawa

Residents in some New Hampshire school districts voted for major reductions to their school budgets earlier this year. Timberlane School District is over $6 million dollars and Merrimack Valley schools are cutting $2 million. As the school year comes to an end, two students reflect on how those cuts could affect them when they return to school in the fall. Abigail Robinson and Nicholas Gelinas are both high school juniors who served as the student representatives of their respective school boards.
Freedom Rider Julia Humbles challenged the rules of segregation - Verite News New Orleans

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

A Trailways bus pulled into a station in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961. A WSB-TV news clip shows officers escorting two Black women to the back of a police van. They were being arrested for riding the bus. One of the women was New Orleans native Julia Aaron Humbles. Humbles “was among a group of young people from New Orleans that staged sit-ins, challenged laws on buses traveling across the south, and even spent time behind bars in several states for their actions,” WGNO-TV states.
In new book ‘Matriarch,’ Tina Knowles traces roots to Louisiana

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Even if you’re not a member of the Beyhive and just a casual listener of the music of Beyoncé or any of her incarnations from Cowboy Carter all the way back to Destiny’s Child, you are no doubt a fan of her mother. Tina Knowles has been in the background—mostly—for all of the public years of her famous daughters (besides Queen B, Solange, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland).
Dave Bartholomew was ‘one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest producers’

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

When it comes to collaborations, the one between Fats Domino and David Louis Bartholomew was epic. For 10 years, they produced 40 singles that hit the Top 40 R&B charts, with seven at No 1. Bartholomew wrote or co-wrote “a string of hits, including ‘Ain’t That A Shame’ and ‘I’m Walking,’” Black Past states. “He was one of the most influential promoters of 20th Century New Orleans-style music, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s.” Born on Dec.
Opinion: Cuts in cancer research will harm Iowans

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Michelle Liu

This photo obtained by The Associated Press shows cardboard tombstones symbolizing canceled research grants at the NIH Visitors Center in Bethesda, Md., Saturday, on June 7, 2025. (AP Photo) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I am extremely fortunate to have spent my formative childhood years in Iowa City and credit my teachers at Northwest Junior High for sparking and cultivating my love for science.
Civil rights investigative journalist Stanley Nelson, ‘the best of us,’ died last week

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

By Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi TodayAmerica lost a gentle giant in journalism when Stanley Nelson, who investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana, died unexpectedly last week. He was 69. CBC reporter David Ridgen, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and podcast host, worked with the reporter for years.“Stanley Nelson is the best of us,” he said. “A doer. Not a reminiscer. A teller. Not someone to leave anyone behind.
Refresher Course: How Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Michelle Liu |Julia Furukawa

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered Host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. In March, the Trump administration invoked a wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan citizens it has accused of being gang members. The administration’s use of the act and methods of deportation, have been challenged in court.
Toni Stone was the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

“Why don’t you go home and fix your husband some biscuits?”Toni Stone heard it all as the first woman to play baseball in the male Negro Leagues. She played for the New Orleans Creoles, the San Francisco Sea Lions and the Kansas City Monarchs in the early 1950s.
Are redevelopers including the voices of Lincoln Beach’s most frequent visitors?

3 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Many locals know that Lincoln Beach was New Orleans’ historic Black beach. What fewer know is that for the past 20 years, the primary users have been from the city’s Latin American communities, and these longtime users have had little voice in the city’s plans to redevelop the space. Officials speak frequently about the amusement park on Lake Pontchartrain that, from 1954-64, was a segregated area where Black New Orleanians could swim and play.